Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. I.
4. "Who fed this muse?" 1
5. Joy. He's himself today! He knows me! 9
6. "Grave, never offering back the face of my dear" 10
7. "Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year" 11
8. The Navajo Rug 12
9. A Vigil 13
10. The Use of Being Fat 15
11. "For years it drove me crazy" 16
12. Performative (Toronto) 17
13. Performative (San Francisco) 18
14. "What I would be when I grew up" 19
15. "Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk" 20
16. Sh 21
17. "I can tune my mind today" 22
18. "All I know is I woke up thinking" 23
19. Snapsh 24
20. "Crushed. Dilapidated." 25
21. The 58 1/2 Minute Hour 26
22. How Not to Be There 27
23. "Mobility, speech, sight" 28
24. "A scar, just a scar" 29
25. "When I got so sick it never occurred to me" 30
26. "Little kid at the airport practicing" 31
27. "In dreams they're interchangeable" 32
28. Our 33
29. "It seems there are two kinds of marriage" 34
30. "One of us falls asleep on the other's shoulder" 35
31. Not 36
32. Nicht Mehr Leben 37
33. "I'm safe so long as the single feather of one wing" 38
34. "In dreams on which decades of marriage haven't" 39
35. II.
36. Trace 43
37. An Essay on the Picture Plane 72
38. Everything Always Distracts 74
39. Sexual Hum 76
40. Penn Central: New Haven Line 80
41. Poet 82
42. Sestina Lente 83
43. III.
44. The Warm Decembers 89
45. Note on "The Warm Decembers" 153